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Over the past month, the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission has been redrawing legislative maps for seven state House districts around Metro Detroit.
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Analysis shows only three of the new proposed plans for redrawing some Metro Detroit state House districts comply with federal law.
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For more than three years, Lansing resident MC Rothhorn served on the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. He stepped down in December among legal challenges to the group's maps.
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The Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission now has three vacancies.
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A federal court ruled several Metro Detroit districts in the maps violated the Voting Rights Act because race was predominant in the way they were drawn.
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Lawyers for both sides of the lawsuit have until Dec. 4 to submit briefs explaining their views on the legality of the state House and Senate maps drawn by the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission.
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The group responsible for drawing Michigan’s new legislative district lines is facing an ethics question after one of its members took a new job.
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The state Senate approved $1.5 million for Michigan’s redistricting commission Wednesday as part of a broader year-end book closing budget package. The commission says it’s already spent around $432,000 since its budget money ran out in October.
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The Michigan Senate passed spending bills totaling about $220 million Wednesday to close the books on the last fiscal year. One deals with general government spending. The other deals with education.